7.5

CVE-2017-11113: invisible-island ncurses NULL Pointer Dereference

Modified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2017-11113UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11113DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11113
Published 08-07-2017Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-11113 is a high (CVSS 7.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in invisible-island ncurses. EPSS estimates a 2.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Priority
Prioritisepublic exploit

Public exploit (reference, Date unknown)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.39%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits1reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 3
MGASA-2018-0001MGASA-2018-0002SUSE-SU-2017:2075-1SUSE-SU-2017:2076-1USN-5448-1

Timeline

  1. 08-07-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.39%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

84%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 2.39% on 05-10-2026

05-10-202604-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (bugzilla.redhat.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Alpine1 product
  • ncurses< 6.0_p20170701-r0 | < 6.0_p20170930-r0
Debian1 product
  • ncurses< 6.0+20170701-1
Invisible-island1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • ncurses< 5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm1 | < 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm1

4 vendors · 4 products

References

7 links